Over 2,000 visually impaired people drawn from the 33 local government areas in Oyo State have been empowered with various gift items and registered under a Health Insurance Scheme worth N1.39 million.
The items were presented by the Balogun Olugbemiga Foundation at Faith Joe Civic Center, Akobo, Ibadan.
The beneficiaries were presented with foodstuffs, cash, POS machines, and Health Insurance Scheme registration.
Speaking at the event, which drew a good number of eminent personalities from Nigeria and abroad, the Founder of the Foundation, Mr Balogun Victor Olugbemiga, explained that it had been his plan and desire to assist visually impaired people because of their challenges.
The gesture, according to him, is aimed at keeping them out of begging on the streets.
He emphasised that as one of them, he felt he could assist them with the little he had, pointing out that his projection was to establish a school for the blind and a home that would look after them.
He spoke of the need for the blind to be empowered, educated, and protected under the health insurance scheme.
At the event, over 2,000 visually impaired people were registered under a Health Insurance Scheme worth N1.380 million, with 20 empowered with POS machines, while several of them went home with palliatives, which included foodstuffs and money.
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